Jerry Falwell's law school is not accredited by the American Bar

[no_hypocrisy]

Association according to the website. No accreditation means graduates can't take bar exams anywhere. No bar exam means no ability to try cases, become judges, etc. Perpetual paralegals.
I tried geographically "Virginia" (Lynchburg) and alphabetically {Liberty).
http://www.abanet.org/legaled/home.html

[AlCzervik]

1. Falwell University....FU...very fitting

[obnoxiousdrunk]

2. Wow the

Radical cleric Jerry FallintheWell has a Law school ??

[UpsideDownFlag]

4. i have a friend who goes to liberty U.

pretty sketchy place. she's only going there because she wants to be a nurse, and they'll accept anyone who says they feel god is calling them to go there.

[kcwayne]

9. He was discussing this with Jeffrey Fieger on some talk show

and promoting the idea (completely false) that the graduates of his law school would reinstitute a Christian vision of the law that was originally constructed by the founding fathers (many of whom were not only not Christians, but were highly critical of Christianity)

Fieger tried to use reason (to no avail of course) to suggest that they needed to understand the US law as opposed to God's law, which of course Falwell took the opposite position.

Fieger closed by saying that he hoped that the rest of the cases he worked on were opposed by a Liberty graduate, which would insure his success...

[noonwitch]

10. Although I'm sure that Fieger doesn't want them on the bench

He's got enough problems with the Michigan Supreme Court right now. They are pursuing an agenda to overturn many of the verdicts in which he won large amounts of money in lawsuits for his clients. Luckily for Malice Green's family, the City of Detroit settled that one out of court.

The MSSC is currently stacked with repubs who are shills for the insurance industry. In Michigan, they are elected officials, although there has been talk about changing that, which I am totally opposed to.

[kcwayne]

13. Fieger's comments suggest that there was no way in hell that any

of them would ever make it to the bench. But he probably errs in judgement there because competence is not required for political appointees or elected judges. Just get a bunch of wingnuts to vote for a judge because he promises to enforce God's law, and to hell with the existing statutes.

[w4rma]

3. Yet. They are their plan for our future. (nt)

[captainjack]

8. they are frightening

the law school was set up to tilt the law in the direction of theocracy. it's not a conspiracy theory - it's what falwell's intent was in setting up the law school - to create a new generation of cons who are knowledgable about the law enough to fashion it according to the bible.

bush himself has said that he wants to appoint more people to the bench who "understand" that laws are derived from god. he said it's common sense. this is scary, scary stuff. i'm glad the school isn't accredited yet and i hope no law firm ever accepts these lunatics into their profession.

[MisterP]

17. a lot of Secret Service guyzos are also Falwell-Roberston graduates

extremist coup coming?

[BJ]

5. Godless atheists prosecuting "Christians"

That's how jokin' Jerry Falwell and Liberty U. will spin it.

[tanyev]

6. They may not ever actually try cases

but I'm sure this will be a fertile source of new blood for places like the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, etc., etc., etc.


:puke:

[SharonAnn]

19. Yes, they'll be lawyers like Ann Coulter is a lawyer

Right?

[punpirate]

7. However...

... I'll bet it's soon to be endorsed by the The Federalist Society, if it isn't already.... The wingers like their judges young and eager, y'know. :eyes:

[madfloridian]

11. Here is more about the FU at the blog, and a clip from the Daily Show.

http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/005168.html#more

SNIP..."The press didn't say much about the new law school. But a timid, shallow media is not the only problem. People who support common sense and fairness do not have the same infrastructure as the radical right. For decades they have spent billions of dollars funding, training and amplifying their movement...."

SNIP..."In the days after September 11th Falwell said that America deserved to be attacked for "throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools." He implicated supporters of civil liberties and women's rights, among others, saying: "I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'"

Like the rest of his and George Bush's agenda, the purpose of Falwell's law school is to roll back the progress of the last hundred years. The people of this country have spent a century unraveling hate and prejudice from out legal system. Falwell wants to bring all that back....."

[_NorCal_D_]

12. No matter.

The Jerry Falwell school of Faith Healing will be open soon enough! :silly:

[Joe_VB]

14. What about Pat Robertson Law School?

Did it ever receive accreditation from the AmBarAssc?

[sbj405]

15. Regent - it's on the accredited list

:puke:

[tom_paine]

16. Which makes it the PERFECT Law School for Imperial Amerika

which is, of course, a Third-World Nation with a Law Enfrocement and Legal SDystem which is in itself descending into 1940s Mississippi Christo-fascism.

[mulsh]

18. good news for all of us but

up until about 10 years ago one could still "read the law" and take the bar exam. reading the law allowed smart, dilligent people to bypass law school and take the bar exam. if they passed they were lawyers. Earl Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason became a lawyer this way, so did Abraham Lincoln.Most people who did this worked closely with established lawyers. Our state lege put an end to this practice but I'm not sure if it is still done in other states. I tried to find out via Findlaw.com and google but only got a bunch of reading lists.

P.S. I hope you're correct, serves the morons right.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

20. The ABA is VERY RESPECTABLE. They would NEVER Acredit....

a school that teaches the "teachings of Hitler."

[realFedUp]

21. Neither are madrasas....

FU-Christian Taliban.